Notes James Glen was born at Rosebauk Place, 1:00 a.m., at Rosebank Place, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland to John Glen (who had died on April 14, 1899), steelworker, and Annie Morton, married December 19, 1894, in Blythwood District, Glasgow, Scotland.)
In 1901, James Glen, 1, was residing at Main Street, Rosebank Place, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other family members included: mother, Ann Glen, 28, widow; Charles Glen, 2; grandparents, Elizabeth Morton, 74; and James Morton, 69, retired blacksmith. (Source: 1901 Census of Scotland; Parish: Cambuslang; ED: 16; Page: 15; Line: 3; Roll: CSSCT1901_253; Year: 1841.)
In 1911, James Glen, 11 (along with his brother, Charles Glen, 12), arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a group of 99 Quarrier boys en route to Brockville, Ontario, Canada.
In 1911, James Glen, 11, was shown as a domestic / laborer, for George H. and Mary O. Latham, of Elizabethtown, Brockville, Ontario, Canada. His date of birth is is shown as April 1898 and his immigration year as 1911.